The creation of a method which indicates degrees of sophistication and allows for the development of management maturity is one of the projects that Stratec has been working on, in an effort to provide the market with instruments that promote management excellence. As the company's executive director, Guilherme Barbassa, rightly observes, the initiative is pioneering. Although methodologies already exist for aspects such as quality, project management, and people management – with scales indicating the degrees of maturity achieved by organizations in those processes – the management area lacks a similar instrument.
For Guilherme Barbassa, the sectors of companies necessarily encompassed in developing this excellence are strategic management, people management, budget management, as well as project and process management. “But it would be a mistake to think of each area in isolation. The modern concept of network organizational management requires integrated investment. If there is an effort to develop maturity in only some of these areas, without the others keeping pace, it's impossible to achieve an optimized return,” states the executive director of Stratec.
Guilherme Barbassa analyzes that a company that, for example, has high sophistication in strategic management but does not advance in budget management planning will fail to achieve the best results from excellence in one area due to the low degree of maturity in another. “Let's also consider hypothetically a company that has a well-developed people management policy, with a good profit-sharing program, but whose strategic management has low maturity. Probably, this profit-sharing program will be misaligned with the company's objectives, causing teams not to work towards strategy execution,” observes Guilherme Barbassa.
In the same vein, analyzing the relationship between Project and Process Management areas, the director of Stratec also warns about the importance of integrated investment. The executive mentions that many companies have high effectiveness in meeting budgets and work schedules, but they cannot achieve the best results due to low investment in process management.
“We are clear that excellence in management can only be achieved with the interconnected maturation of these areas. This involves evaluation, process improvement, and the development of organizational culture. With this focus and our extensive market knowledge, we are developing a new management maturity methodology for the market,” assures the executive director of Stratec.
